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Communicate Archive

In need of some environmental communication inspiration? Explore video playlists, take a look at the presentations, and programmes from previous Communicate conferences, with highlights including keynote speeches from Sir David Attenborough, Dame Fiona Reynolds and Jonathon Porritt

2018: The Art of the Possible

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As communicators in a complex, unpredictable world, there is an urgent need for pragmatic, proactive tools to seize on this time of unprecedented social and political change.

From plastics to climate change, habitat loss to nature connection, what can we each achieve to collectively engineer the right conditions and identify the catalysts of positive action? What can we learn from exploring the evolutionary history of the issues to help us navigate this complex ecology of change?

Discuss, debate, and build a vital communications toolkit for the coming year through two days of inspiring content, cutting edge research, practical workshops and engaging discussion.

2018: Communicate+

Communicate+ was a brand new conference for 2018 which brought together secondary students from across the West of England alongside cutting edge researchers, communicators and industry figures to:

Young people had their say on the Government’s 25 year Environment Plan and helped shape communications to encourage other young people across the country to participate in the 2019 Year of Green Action. Young people in attendance conceived the official hashtag for the Year of Youth Environmental Action – #IWill4Nature

Learn about key environmental issues, solutions, and the science behind them from leading experts in the field

Receive training in how to communicate complex ideas in compelling ways, to convince others and develop the tools to turn ideas into action!

2018: Changing Minds: Water Stories

What are the challenges – and the opportunities – in crafting effective messages for stakeholder and public audiences around water?

This event brought together a wide group of environmental professionals to discuss and debate approaches to communicating the value of water to public audiences, including review of current audience research, current campaigns, use of communication channels. Using the Bristol Avon Catchment area as a case study, delegates explored ideas that can implemented or scaled-up nationally.

2018: Changing Minds: Beyond Plastics

Environmental communication is in the spotlight as ocean and marine plastics are front and centre in public consciousness like never before. What has driven this global phenomenon – can it really just be Blue Planet 2? And most urgently, how can we now tackle the other major issues facing our water sources, and turn the spotlight on plastics campaigns into a tidal wave of other important environmental behaviours?

2017: Navigating Change

In a time of unprecedented social, economic and political change we urgently need proactive tools for successfully communicating environmental issues. Communicate went straight to the interface and asked some difficult questions about current approaches as we explored a shifting landscape of echo-chambers, divisive opinions and fake news.

150 delegates came together to discuss, debate, and built vital communications toolkits for the coming year over two days of inspiring content, cutting edge research, practical workshops and engaging discussion.

2017: Changing Minds: Tools from Behavioural Science

Understanding how people think, feel and respond to information is vital to successfully communicating environmental issues and influencing positive change. Expert researchers and communications practitioners brought together a diverse range of perspectives, using behavioural sciences to explore and influence a shifting landscape of echo-chambers, divisive opinions and fake news.